Game Thread [2022-23] Phil Knight Legacy (tournament)

[rome8180]

I’m going to hold out hope for Dariq until at least the middle of Jan in deference to the HS scouting of @rome8180 but if he’s still doing this by then, he’s getting binned with Giles/Reddish/Jalen as an all timer

I'd still rather play him in a 3-guard lineup with Mitchell at the 4 and Flip at the 5 than what we're doing now. I don't care how bad he is.

 

[dukebluedevils05]

Was it simply that we couldn’t make shots that allowed for the final margin? Or was it more than that? I watched most of the first half and the defense was disgusting.

 

[aiw]

It was everything.

 

[rome8180]

I'd also point out that my scouting can be correct AND he can suck. Not mutually exclusive. Giles would be a good example of how that happens.

 

[dukebluedevils05]

Awesome. Doesn’t give me much hope for the rest of the season.

 

[Slap the Floor]

Was it simply that we couldn’t make shots that allowed for the final margin? Or was it more than that? I watched most of the first half and the defense was disgusting.

The defense did not improve in the 2nd half until Scheyer went into a 2-3 zone, which held Purdue scoreless for I believe 5 straight possessions and spurred a 8-0 Duke run. Eventually, Duke began going to a 2-2-1 press into the 2-3 zone. I believe Duke got down by 18, and then cut it to a 7 point deficit at 62-55 with 9:17 to play after Proctor made a lay-up. This was the last time Duke would score a basket as they made 1 free throw the rest of the game.

 

[LastHearth]

I think Duke expended so much energy getting back into the game that they completely ran out of gas in the last 9 minutes.

 

[physicsfactor]

I think there’s some merit to that. Filipowski, in particular, looked pretty exhausted late in the game. But really, Purdue just looked like a much better team at this point. Their ball movement was 1000x better than Duke’s.

 

[deepdarkblue]

If Purdue goes undefeated this year, I'll be able to accept that disgusting Duke performance.

 

[rome8180]

I think there’s some merit to that. Filipowski, in particular, looked pretty exhausted late in the game. But really, Purdue just looked like a much better team at this point. Their ball movement was 1000x better than Duke’s.

It seems like our ball movement disappears for long stretches against good competition. When we play a bad team, we run great stuff for 40 minutes. Even against Xavier, a game we won, we had a long disgusting stretch in the middle of the 2nd half.

 

[LastHearth]

I think that just a sign of inexperience, when going against tough competition, players lose their composure and defaults back to street ball iso.

 

[bdotling]

Also what K would do when things got tight. Iso ball